Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A variety of factors have given rise to more focus on hospital-at-home – the pandemic, persistent staffing shortages, rising costs, patient complications, such as delirium – leading CMS to increase financial incentives to provide care at home without reducing quality or access. This is at the core of population health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 4, 2021

Telehealth, remote patient monitoring, digital therapeutics, provider home visits, sharable medical records have "shown that care in the home can be at least equivalent to, if not better than, care offered in facilities. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Patient Access Care. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 30, 2023

What can be expected in healthcare and health IT now that the PHE has ended, and what does this mean for the future of telehealth? Further, what should CIOs and other health IT leaders at hospitals and health systems be doing to address new telemedicine challenges? What does the end of the PHE mean for the future of telemedicine?

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care innovations

MAY 30, 2018

Much has been written about the benefits of telehealth services like remote care within the healthcare system. By improving patient engagement and healthy behaviors, telehealth has the potential to help keep employees out of the hospital. How Telehealth Helps Meets the Unique Challenges of Employee Health Coverage.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2024

While this growing connectivity does enable better patient monitoring within and beyond the hospital, it also raises cybersecurity risks, compromising patients' personal and medical data and disrupting treatment protocols and hospital operations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

National study gets federal grant to evaluate medication charting model involving EMRs A new federal government-funded project will involve pharmacists to validate a medication charting and deprescribing model in hospitals using EMRs. The CARe-MED study, which has received A$1.4

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

NYU Langone Health experienced explosive growth in telehealth visits, online appointment booking, online physician finding, remote patient monitoring, and connecting via video inside the hospital when visitors could not be accommodated. " Eric Jimenez, Artesia General Hospital. " Dr. Paul Testa, NYU Langone Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic intensifies, hospitals are struggling valiantly to keep up with the influx of infected patients. Hospital IT departments, meanwhile, are undergoing stresses of their own as they work to support the rapidly escalating needs of clinicians.

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American Well

MARCH 7, 2017

Not surprisingly, the hospital of the future will require technology solutions like telehealth to meet growing patient demands for remote access to health information and providers. Hospital IT: Driving change. In today’s hospital, IT teams are in charge of driving innovation and making the technology decisions.

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American Well

MARCH 7, 2017

Not surprisingly, the hospital of the future will require technology solutions like telehealth to meet growing patient demands for remote access to health information and providers. Hospital IT: Driving change. In today’s hospital, IT teams are in charge of driving innovation and making the technology decisions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Telemedicine is not only cost-effective for both the patient and the hospital, it also can reduce the risk of exposure to disease for all parties, especially during a pandemic. The organization has offered services such as virtual urgent care, telepsychiatry and virtual post-op appointments for several years to meet the needs of patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Mayo Clinic Platform President Dr. John Halamka has said that he sees a healthcare future based around "virtualist centers in what were formerly known as hospitals. And Allina Health spinoff Inbound Health announced its plans to help other providers develop home-based acute care and skilled nursing models.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2024

" MEETING THE CHALLENGE TBRHSC automated the pre-op messaging for all surgeries across Northwestern Ontario surgical hospitals. They understand us and what we are trying to do."

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American Well

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Medical Design Technology interviews Mike Baird, CEO of Avizia, a complete telehealth platform provider. When we started Avizia, we saw multiple vendors in the marketplace that were creating parts to a solution and they would throw those parts over the fence to the hospital IT department and expect them to put it together. Sean Fenske.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In a panel this past week at the HIMSS Connected Health Conference in Boston, Dr. John Halamka, international healthcare innovation professor at Harvard Medical School, and four other telehealth experts tried to arrive at a definition of just what telehealth is. "It's a tool. Just like the EHR is a tool.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Joe Ganley, Vice President of Government and Regulatory Affairs at athenahealth There is no shortage of potential regulations that could impact health IT and more importantly our customers, from how we regulate artificial intelligence, to privacy, to telehealth to TEFCA, to information blocking (HTI-1 Rule from ONC).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

As an ambulatory surgery center, it has to be very intentional about collecting readmission data from the regional hospital. " Then there are lower readmission and infection rates.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

JANUARY 15, 2019

Eighteen months ago, we introduced this telehealth type of application to our oncology patients. ” Address Patient Needs with Right Resource: When patients are not in the Clinic or Hospital, it is important to understand what they need. Our palliative team is embedded within Oncology.

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Digital Health Today

JANUARY 7, 2022

UCM Health is a platform that serves not only as a “digital front door” but offers 24/7 telehealth treat, triage, and navigation service to lower costs and improve outcomes and the patient experience. . Lightning Round: What is a saying, quote or phrase that motivates you? That’s really the solution.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Consider VA Telehealth and DigitalVA. The cost of hospitalization of a Medicare patient, for example, is around $13,600. category tags: Family caregivers , Home Care , home health care , healthcare , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

The quickly evolving COVID-19 public health emergency has warranted the growing use of telehealth and non-invasive remote monitoring devices to facilitate patient monitoring while reducing patient and healthcare provider contact and possible exposure to the virus. It also provides medication adherence tools. iRhythm Technologies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2022

But if you look at a hospital, it's the place with the best resources for clinical care in our country, for example, the staff, providers, equipment and technology. Moving forward, care is going to be delivered in three ways: in high-quality facilities; online with telehealth capabilities; and in your living room.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 27, 2022

Providers need a health IT platform that supports needed customizations and telehealth integrations. Improving patient care and maximizing profitability requires visibility into the day-to-day management and actionable insights to inform decisions and improve daily operations.

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Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Louis, nestled among locust, elm and sweetgum trees, the Mercy Virtual Care Center has a lot in common with other hospitals. Most of Mercy’s telehealth and remote monitoring covers patients and hospitals inside the small Catholic hospital system, which has facilities in Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas.

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Mend

JANUARY 18, 2021

Telehealth advocates aren’t impressed with the lack of support for connected health services in the latest pandemic relief package. We believe arbitrary restrictions on telehealth must be permanently removed to make way for a modernized and more accessible healthcare system.”. But those calls were largely ignored.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

These exceptional benefits landed the hospital on Best Companies AZ ‘s 100 Best Arizona Companies list for healthcare, and Phoenix Business Journal gave the hospital its HealthCare Leadership Award in 2017. The company offers a competitive benefits package including life insurance and telehealth visits. Pinehurst (N.C.)

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